Tag: Health
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The Health Benefits of Yoga and Meditation
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in balance, behavior, equanimity, exercise, fitness, health, meditation, relaxation, self care, self help, spirituality, strength, wisdom, yogaIncreasingly health providers are acknowledging the importance of the mind-body connection to overall wellness, rather than just focusing on the physical machinery. Yoga and meditation are practices that can contribute to good mental and physical health. Yoga & Wellness The health benefits of yoga have been recognized anecdotally for thousands of years, but now there…
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Harnessing Your Emotional Superpowers
Do you find yourself riding an emotional roller coaster, catapulted to great heights when good things happen and sunk into the depths when bad things happen? Do you cry too often and too easily such that its difficult to get your message across and people don’t take you seriously? Do you feel inflamed by injustices…
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The Power of Referral
Like a bridge spanning an otherwise challenging obstacle, a referral is meant to take its recipient safely and efficiently from point A to point B. An excellent healthcare referral can be a powerful intervention, but many such referrals are made in haste without much forethought. It can be especially difficult for mental healthcare consumers to…
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Managing Stress
Stress is nothing more than your response to a perceived threat. I emphasize the word “perceived” because stress is caused by our interpretation of events rather than the event itself. We know this because what is stressful to one person may not be stressful at all to another person. Stress can arise from something good…
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How to Give Yourself a Bad Case of Depression
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Although major depression is a medical condition that is largely out of a person’s control, the following is a tongue-in-cheek list of some things you can do if you want to increase the odds that you will become depressed or stay depressed: Think negatively The way you think will influence how you feel and behave.…
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Keeping Up with the National Health Reform Debate
(This post is from 2009 – an interesting look back!) As an American health care provider, I have a vested interest in the health care reform debate as it will impact the future state of health care in the US. I am especially concerned about my clients understanding and having a voice in the issues.…
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Selflessness
Our society values and encourages selflessness. We think about self-sacrifice and putting others before ourselves as virtuous qualities. To be selfless means, “having no regard to self”. Although we may choose to act selflessly at times (which can be a wonderful thing), we cannot completely disregard ourselves. Remember the Zen-Buddhist saying, “Wherever you go, there…